Nutrition History

Use your nutrition to feel great, beam energy, focus more, sleep better, and prevent disease - beyond the dogma

A Comprehensive Course for Health & Career Growth – Unlocking Skills in Nutrition Science, Health, and Diet Planning

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
As nutritional studies proliferate, producing more and more knowledge about the connection between diet and health, Americans seem increasingly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. In Measured Meals, Jessica J. Mudry looks at the language used in the United States to communicate about health and nutrition, and reveals its effects on reframing, reshaping, and controlling what and how Americans eat. Analyzing the USDA and American federal food guidelines over the past one hundred years, Mudry shows how the language of nutrition has evolved over time.